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windshield
Once I saw a velomobile with a simple home-made windshield. The last few weeks there was lots of stormy winds during my commute. So I decided to make a windshield too. I bought a screen for a crash helmet with fixed visor (the ones which are used by motorcyclists), and adapted it for use in…
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cloudy Vlissingen
This is a link to a Power Point Presentation that my neighbour Kosbie send me by email. I think it is too nice not to show it to you all…….. ( 4 Mb ) clouds over Vlissingen
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Shimano sandal with cleat
Today I bought these sandals. I only heard positive things about these sandals in velomobiles by users. So now I can find out myself….. I have thought of the simple idea to make something like Gary did…….. ……but when I realized that Rob Thomson already tested the Shimano sandels to the extreme on his travels…
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Sheldon Brown
Yesterday I’ve heard that Sheldon Brown had a serious heart attack and died………….. With him we loose a great cyclist………… Now the only thing we can do to honour him is to visit his pages as a homage.
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new T-shirts
Our new T-shirts ; When you’re on a recumbent, no one can see the text on the backside…….. So it will be clear that Marjan seldom uses her recumbent, while I use mine daily 😉
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parler vous francais ?
There is a nice blog made by this Velomobile enthousiast written in french. I can only read it using the google translation……… He is inspired by “peak oil” and is selling his second car because the velomobile is doing well in the French traffic ! His experience is interesting for me, because he uses his…
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red rocket
My neighbour took this photo when I showed him my Quest.
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China Wheelie promo video !
Rob Luxton’s adventure on a three wheeled recumbent tricycle will take him 25,000km all around China, passing through every province on the mainland.The expedition will also help raise awareness and money for two Charities ; Sowers Action and Care For Children. Both dedicated to improving the lives of children in poor areas throughout China. Beginning…
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78-speed records
cleaning the old records that we inherited from our patents.
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T-shirt
Just a few day’s waiting and the T-shirts were delivered…….. At first sight, the quality is good. I think it’s made with the same high standard as the stuff from LARGE . But we’ll see, time and a lot of washing will tell………. Cheap T-shirt prints usually perish inside the washing machine ; and when…
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cleaning….
working hard to clean the apartment of my daughter. Coffee is my my most important tool. 😉
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verhuisdoos
23-01-08_1322.jpg, originally uploaded by wim harwig. Her study didn’t work as it was supposed to… now she is moving back to “her old folks” again. which means a lot of work ! Because she moved twice within six month, I gave her the temporary nickname “verhuis-doos”. 😉
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Velomobile printed on shirts
“Spreadshirt” is printing good quality T-shirts and selling via Internet. There are many designers who use Spreadshirt for there products. One of these guys has started “Verteflamme’s”. He made some designs with velomobiles and recumbent-trikes! So now you can order your own velomobile T-shirt. Of coarse I like the red Quest design most of all…